Is it true that PARCC 2014 scores won't be published until 2015?

[Anonymous]

Is it true that PARCC 2014 scores won't be published until 2015?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it true that PARCC 2014 scores won't be published until 2015?

PARCC was not given in 2014 except in pilot to help refine the test.

[Anonymous]

And it already is 2015.

Now results the tests being given this spring won't be out until at least summer -- and will be held longer than that from students, parents and teachers, because the states are going to freak out when they see the massive failures of 70 to 95 percent.

[Anonymous]

Due to standard setting, there will probably not be public 2015 PARCC data until late fall 2015.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

And it already is 2015.

Now results the tests being given this spring won't be out until at least summer -- and will be held longer than that from students, parents and teachers, because the states are going to freak out when they see the massive failures of 70 to 95 percent.

Is it really expected to have performance that low?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

And it already is 2015.

Now results the tests being given this spring won't be out until at least summer -- and will be held longer than that from students, parents and teachers, because the states are going to freak out when they see the massive failures of 70 to 95 percent.

Is it really expected to have performance that low?

No, there is one persistent poster who likes to say so though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

And it already is 2015.

Now results the tests being given this spring won't be out until at least summer -- and will be held longer than that from students, parents and teachers, because the states are going to freak out when they see the massive failures of 70 to 95 percent.

Is it really expected to have performance that low?

No, there is one persistent poster who likes to say so though.

From The Progressive:

12 Questions Every Parent Should Ask About the #PARCC - See more at: http://www.progressive.org/news/2015/02/188000/12-questions-every-parent-should-ask-about-parcc#sthash.Akai4rDS.dpuf




1. The reading level of some of the language arts test questions has been found to be several grades above the tested grade. How is a child who cannot read at that grade level and can't understand the text or the test questions expected to complete the test?

2. What happens when a student—particularly in the younger grades—doesn't have the keyboard skills to successfully navigate the test? How is that fair to the child?

3. If the tests are supposed to be diagnostically useful, how come students and teachers can't see them to see what students got wrong and where they need help?

4. If the tests are supposed to be diagnostically useful, how come the scores won't be made available until the following school year, essentially rendering them meaningless?

5. Why are the cut scores being determined after the students take the tests?

6. Why aren't you concerned that Pearson is advertising for test scorers at $12/hour on Craigslist?

7. A high school student's GPA is a more accurate indicator of how well they will do in their first year of college than any standardized test. If the PARCC can 'magically' determine college and career readiness, why don't 4-year colleges require the test for admission instead of the SAT or ACT?

8. Currently, there are 10 states left in the PARCC consortium. If the test is so fantastic, why have half the states in the original consortium dropped out?

9. Bari Erlichson, Chief Performance Officer/Assistant Commissioner of Data, Research, Evaluation and Reporting at the NJDOE admitted in a public forum that "the PARCC end-of-year/end-of-course assessments —are not intended to be the. . . diagnostic form of assessment. . . that would diagnose and be able to inform instruction. . . These are in fact summative test scores that have a different purpose than the one that we're talking about in terms of diagnosis." (emphasis mine) So, why are we being told they are diagnostic? Why are we being told teachers will be able to use the results to help students?

10. How do you justify submitting children to this test when many adults cannot pass the sample tests?

11. Test design expert Bob Shephard has said that "For many of the sample released questions, there is, arguably, no answer among the answer choices that is correct or more than one answer that is correct, or the question simply is not, arguably, actually answerable as written." How do you justify placing a child's education and a teacher's career in the hands of such a flawed instrument?

12. How do you justify the narrowing of the curriculum, the cuts to the related arts, foreign languages, physical education, and other subjects when so much research shows that a well-rounded education is much better preparation for a productive life?


- See more at: http://www.progressive.org/news/2015/02/188000/12-questions-every-parent-should-ask-about-parcc#sthash.Akai4rDS.dpuf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

And it already is 2015.

Now results the tests being given this spring won't be out until at least summer -- and will be held longer than that from students, parents and teachers, because the states are going to freak out when they see the massive failures of 70 to 95 percent.

Here's how it played out in North Carolina this year: (an note that they held on to the test scores until November so they could figure out how to spin it)

http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2013/11/07/student-test-scores-drop-significantly-due-to-adoption-of-more-rigorous-standards/

North Carolina’s Department of Public Instruction has been warning the public for weeks that student performance on standardized tests this year will be dramatically lower than in years past, reflecting the state’s move to align with the more rigorous Common Core standards as well as other college and career readiness standards in all subject areas.

Only 32 percent of students in grades 3-8 were proficient in reading and mathematics in 2012-13 — that’s almost a 27 percent drop from 2011-12, when 58.9 percent of students were proficient. The overall composite proficiency score for all state tests is 44.7 percent, down from 77.9 percent in 2011-12, a 33 percent drop.
- See more at: http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2013/11/07/student-test-scores-drop-significantly-due-to-adoption-of-more-rigorous-standards/#sthash.vfvtd5lv.dpuf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

And it already is 2015.

Now results the tests being given this spring won't be out until at least summer -- and will be held longer than that from students, parents and teachers, because the states are going to freak out when they see the massive failures of 70 to 95 percent.

Here's how it played out in North Carolina this year: (an note that they held on to the test scores until November so they could figure out how to spin it)

http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2013/11/07/student-test-scores-drop-significantly-due-to-adoption-of-more-rigorous-standards/

North Carolina’s Department of Public Instruction has been warning the public for weeks that student performance on standardized tests this year will be dramatically lower than in years past, reflecting the state’s move to align with the more rigorous Common Core standards as well as other college and career readiness standards in all subject areas.

Only 32 percent of students in grades 3-8 were proficient in reading and mathematics in 2012-13 — that’s almost a 27 percent drop from 2011-12, when 58.9 percent of students were proficient. The overall composite proficiency score for all state tests is 44.7 percent, down from 77.9 percent in 2011-12, a 33 percent drop.
- See more at: http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2013/11/07/student-test-scores-drop-significantly-due-to-adoption-of-more-rigorous-standards/#sthash.vfvtd5lv.dpuf

This isn't about PARCC..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

And it already is 2015.

Now results the tests being given this spring won't be out until at least summer -- and will be held longer than that from students, parents and teachers, because the states are going to freak out when they see the massive failures of 70 to 95 percent.

Is it really expected to have performance that low?

No, there is one persistent poster who likes to say so though.

From The Progressive:

12 Questions Every Parent Should Ask About the #PARCC - See more at: http://www.progressive.org/news/2015/02/188000/12-questions-every-parent-should-ask-about-parcc#sthash.Akai4rDS.dpuf




1. The reading level of some of the language arts test questions has been found to be several grades above the tested grade. How is a child who cannot read at that grade level and can't understand the text or the test questions expected to complete the test?

2. What happens when a student—particularly in the younger grades—doesn't have the keyboard skills to successfully navigate the test? How is that fair to the child?

3. If the tests are supposed to be diagnostically useful, how come students and teachers can't see them to see what students got wrong and where they need help?

4. If the tests are supposed to be diagnostically useful, how come the scores won't be made available until the following school year, essentially rendering them meaningless?

5. Why are the cut scores being determined after the students take the tests?

6. Why aren't you concerned that Pearson is advertising for test scorers at $12/hour on Craigslist?

7. A high school student's GPA is a more accurate indicator of how well they will do in their first year of college than any standardized test. If the PARCC can 'magically' determine college and career readiness, why don't 4-year colleges require the test for admission instead of the SAT or ACT?

8. Currently, there are 10 states left in the PARCC consortium. If the test is so fantastic, why have half the states in the original consortium dropped out?

9. Bari Erlichson, Chief Performance Officer/Assistant Commissioner of Data, Research, Evaluation and Reporting at the NJDOE admitted in a public forum that "the PARCC end-of-year/end-of-course assessments —are not intended to be the. . . diagnostic form of assessment. . . that would diagnose and be able to inform instruction. . . These are in fact summative test scores that have a different purpose than the one that we're talking about in terms of diagnosis." (emphasis mine) So, why are we being told they are diagnostic? Why are we being told teachers will be able to use the results to help students?

10. How do you justify submitting children to this test when many adults cannot pass the sample tests?

11. Test design expert Bob Shephard has said that "For many of the sample released questions, there is, arguably, no answer among the answer choices that is correct or more than one answer that is correct, or the question simply is not, arguably, actually answerable as written." How do you justify placing a child's education and a teacher's career in the hands of such a flawed instrument?

12. How do you justify the narrowing of the curriculum, the cuts to the related arts, foreign languages, physical education, and other subjects when so much research shows that a well-rounded education is much better preparation for a productive life?


- See more at: http://www.progressive.org/news/2015/02/188000/12-questions-every-parent-should-ask-about-parcc#sthash.Akai4rDS.dpuf

Anti common core propaganda questions aren't facts. Seems like someone could have benefitted from a more rigorous education, especially with respect to analyzing primary sources. too bad common core wasn't around when they were in school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

And it already is 2015.

Now results the tests being given this spring won't be out until at least summer -- and will be held longer than that from students, parents and teachers, because the states are going to freak out when they see the massive failures of 70 to 95 percent.

Is it really expected to have performance that low?

No, there is one persistent poster who likes to say so though.

From The Progressive:

12 Questions Every Parent Should Ask About the #PARCC - See more at: http://www.progressive.org/news/2015/02/188000/12-questions-every-parent-should-ask-about-parcc#sthash.Akai4rDS.dpuf




1. The reading level of some of the language arts test questions has been found to be several grades above the tested grade. How is a child who cannot read at that grade level and can't understand the text or the test questions expected to complete the test?

2. What happens when a student—particularly in the younger grades—doesn't have the keyboard skills to successfully navigate the test? How is that fair to the child?

3. If the tests are supposed to be diagnostically useful, how come students and teachers can't see them to see what students got wrong and where they need help?

4. If the tests are supposed to be diagnostically useful, how come the scores won't be made available until the following school year, essentially rendering them meaningless?

5. Why are the cut scores being determined after the students take the tests?

6. Why aren't you concerned that Pearson is advertising for test scorers at $12/hour on Craigslist?

7. A high school student's GPA is a more accurate indicator of how well they will do in their first year of college than any standardized test. If the PARCC can 'magically' determine college and career readiness, why don't 4-year colleges require the test for admission instead of the SAT or ACT?

8. Currently, there are 10 states left in the PARCC consortium. If the test is so fantastic, why have half the states in the original consortium dropped out?

9. Bari Erlichson, Chief Performance Officer/Assistant Commissioner of Data, Research, Evaluation and Reporting at the NJDOE admitted in a public forum that "the PARCC end-of-year/end-of-course assessments —are not intended to be the. . . diagnostic form of assessment. . . that would diagnose and be able to inform instruction. . . These are in fact summative test scores that have a different purpose than the one that we're talking about in terms of diagnosis." (emphasis mine) So, why are we being told they are diagnostic? Why are we being told teachers will be able to use the results to help students?

10. How do you justify submitting children to this test when many adults cannot pass the sample tests?

11. Test design expert Bob Shephard has said that "For many of the sample released questions, there is, arguably, no answer among the answer choices that is correct or more than one answer that is correct, or the question simply is not, arguably, actually answerable as written." How do you justify placing a child's education and a teacher's career in the hands of such a flawed instrument?

12. How do you justify the narrowing of the curriculum, the cuts to the related arts, foreign languages, physical education, and other subjects when so much research shows that a well-rounded education is much better preparation for a productive life?


- See more at: http://www.progressive.org/news/2015/02/188000/12-questions-every-parent-should-ask-about-parcc#sthash.Akai4rDS.dpuf

Anti common core propaganda questions aren't facts. Seems like someone could have benefitted from a more rigorous education, especially with respect to analyzing primary sources. too bad common core wasn't around when they were in school.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Unlike the CCSS supporters, who only quote the CCSS site!!!


I get my information from multiple sources. The above information is correct.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

And it already is 2015.

Now results the tests being given this spring won't be out until at least summer -- and will be held longer than that from students, parents and teachers, because the states are going to freak out when they see the massive failures of 70 to 95 percent.

Is it really expected to have performance that low?

No, there is one persistent poster who likes to say so though.

From The Progressive:

12 Questions Every Parent Should Ask About the #PARCC - See more at: http://www.progressive.org/news/2015/02/188000/12-questions-every-parent-should-ask-about-parcc#sthash.Akai4rDS.dpuf




1. The reading level of some of the language arts test questions has been found to be several grades above the tested grade. How is a child who cannot read at that grade level and can't understand the text or the test questions expected to complete the test?

2. What happens when a student—particularly in the younger grades—doesn't have the keyboard skills to successfully navigate the test? How is that fair to the child?

3. If the tests are supposed to be diagnostically useful, how come students and teachers can't see them to see what students got wrong and where they need help?

4. If the tests are supposed to be diagnostically useful, how come the scores won't be made available until the following school year, essentially rendering them meaningless?

5. Why are the cut scores being determined after the students take the tests?

6. Why aren't you concerned that Pearson is advertising for test scorers at $12/hour on Craigslist?

7. A high school student's GPA is a more accurate indicator of how well they will do in their first year of college than any standardized test. If the PARCC can 'magically' determine college and career readiness, why don't 4-year colleges require the test for admission instead of the SAT or ACT?

8. Currently, there are 10 states left in the PARCC consortium. If the test is so fantastic, why have half the states in the original consortium dropped out?

9. Bari Erlichson, Chief Performance Officer/Assistant Commissioner of Data, Research, Evaluation and Reporting at the NJDOE admitted in a public forum that "the PARCC end-of-year/end-of-course assessments —are not intended to be the. . . diagnostic form of assessment. . . that would diagnose and be able to inform instruction. . . These are in fact summative test scores that have a different purpose than the one that we're talking about in terms of diagnosis." (emphasis mine) So, why are we being told they are diagnostic? Why are we being told teachers will be able to use the results to help students?

10. How do you justify submitting children to this test when many adults cannot pass the sample tests?

11. Test design expert Bob Shephard has said that "For many of the sample released questions, there is, arguably, no answer among the answer choices that is correct or more than one answer that is correct, or the question simply is not, arguably, actually answerable as written." How do you justify placing a child's education and a teacher's career in the hands of such a flawed instrument?

12. How do you justify the narrowing of the curriculum, the cuts to the related arts, foreign languages, physical education, and other subjects when so much research shows that a well-rounded education is much better preparation for a productive life?


- See more at: http://www.progressive.org/news/2015/02/188000/12-questions-every-parent-should-ask-about-parcc#sthash.Akai4rDS.dpuf

Anti common core propaganda questions aren't facts. Seems like someone could have benefitted from a more rigorous education, especially with respect to analyzing primary sources. too bad common core wasn't around when they were in school.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Unlike the CCSS supporters, who only quote the CCSS site!!!


I get my information from multiple sources. The above information is correct.

I can't judge whether it is correct or not because it is (1) questions and (2) OPINION. However, I also know that none of these questions supported your assertion about the passage rates for PARCC, because the test has yet to be administered outside of pilot mode, and the testing "curve" has not yet been established. At best, it is correct to say that people who are opposed to the common core standards believe the pass rate for the test was be as low as five percent. That is nothing more than a prediction.

[Anonymous]

I work in a school and we were told the results for the upcoming part (written, not multiple choice) will not be back until fall. PARCC has two parts- written given in Spring and multiple choice given in June. I didn't ask, my assumption was that the multiple choice scores would be available pretty quickly since its online.

IMO, there will be a drop across the board, but largely due to the change in testing format. For DCPS students it may not be as bad because DCPS rolled out CCSS several years ago and all the unit assessments given are online so students should be more comfortable with the testing format. Many of the questions are worded in a similar fashion as those on PARCC. Another consideration is the type of questions. Students can no longer simply eliminate two wrong answers and guess between the other two. Some questions have several correct answers. Some questions require the student to tell why the answer is correct.


PARCC sample questions are available online for any parent who wants to get an idea of whats on the test and the format.

http://parcc.pearson.com/practice-tests/

[Anonymous]

I do think the lack of typing skills will be a problem. Our child's teacher has already told us that we need to have her practice typing at home because she's not able to get down all the thoughts she has in a timely manner. I'm not sure how much her typing skills can improve in the next two weeks though!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do think the lack of typing skills will be a problem. Our child's teacher has already told us that we need to have her practice typing at home because she's not able to get down all the thoughts she has in a timely manner. I'm not sure how much her typing skills can improve in the next two weeks though!

Yup, the typing thing is big, at least for 3rd graders.